Tulane University - Jambalaya Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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i i NEWCOMB COLLEGE Pierce Butler, B.A., M.A , Ph.D. Deaii Neivcomb College was founded by Mrs. Josephine Louise Newcomb, in October, 1896. It was her desire to establish in this college a memorial to her daughter, Harriet Sophie Newcomb. In her will, which is dated May 12, 1898, she left to the administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund, for the benefit of Newcomb College, the residue of her estate after the payment of certain specified legacies. Mrs. Newcomb ' s feeling for the people of New Orleans and her desire to advance the cause of education of young women in Louisiana were the reasons that moved her to make this founda- tion. It was her specific desire that there should be maintained a simple form of daily religious exercises in a chapel or assembly room, but she specifically pro- vided, I desire that worship and Instruction shall not be of a sectarian or denominational character. There are at piesent seven buildings of fine con- struction upon the campus, and several smaller build- ings. We have just completed a new dormitory, the Warren Newcomb House, fronting upon Audubon Place, which will probably form one unit in a plan of dormitories to be built. We are now building Dixon Hall, on the quadrangle fronting the Art Building, named in honor of President Emeritus B. . D. Dixon. Dixon Hall, ready for the session of 1929-1930, will provide an auditorium seating about one thousand, with a fine stage; studio and practice rooms for the School of Music; and accommodation for the Library. The purpose of the college is to foster the intellectual life in any way that may seem most helpful and promising for the maintenance of a high standard of culture, and it endeavors to equip young women for effective and intelligent service to society. The regular courses offered lead to the degree of B.A. or B.S., or for students in Art and Music, B. Design and B. Music. ■% -

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m. THE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE Charles Casseuv Bass, M.D., D Sc. Dean Emerson once said, and very truly, The first wealth is health. It is more precious to a people than good roads, the improvements of rivers and harbors, the fos- tering of agriculture, or the conservation of natural resources. Upon good health depends efficiency and happiness. The line between efficiency and inefficiency is drawn upon the ability of the individual to go to work today; that between happiness and unhappiness upon the ability to enjoy the work of today. Health is the great problem of life. In the past health has been dependent largely on curative medi- cine. In the future it will be largely upon preventive medicine. Statistics show that every fifty seconds a life is lost to our country through preventable diseases. Medical science believes that the known preventable diseases constitute only a fraction of those that can be prevented. Ever since its establishment in 1834, the Medical College of Tulane University has been doing its utmost to raise a standard of medical education throughout the country. Now, after ninety years of active existence, it has taken its place with the leading medical colleges, not only of the state and countr}-, but of the whole world.